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UNINA9910463991203321 |
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Autore |
Steigenberge Joachim |
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Titolo |
Worm-like locomotion systems : an intermediate theoretical approach / / Joachim Steigenberger, Carsten Behn |
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Munich, Germany : , : Oldenbourg Verlag, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Mechanical movements - Mathematical models |
Worms - Locomotion - Mathematical models |
Propulsion systems - Mathematical models |
Friction - Mathematical models |
Adaptive control systems - Mathematical models |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Matter -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Straight Worm With Propulsive Spikes ("Spiky") -- 3 The Straight Worm With Propulsive "Friction" -- 4 Adaptive Control of Worms -- 5 Conclusions -- A Mathematical Concepts -- B Mechanical Concepts -- C Control Theory Concepts -- D Notes on Simulation Parameters -- E Some Program Source Codes -- Back Matter |
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The book in hand grew out of the authors' current research and their long-continued experience in teaching mathematics and mechanics. In a wide sense, it aims at mathematical modeling of mechanical objects and their exploitation. This is done in a bit unconventional way by concentrating on the special object class worm-like locomotion systems and in proceeding with no use of recent sophisticated mathematical tools which most likely cannot be handled by freshmen in engineering or mathematics. Nevertheless, this does not harm the stringent line the physical object to the analytical interpretation of the final mathematical model. The basic model spiked worm in a straight line enables the authors to come up with a fairly self-contained theory |
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which then allows one to study effects of friction and control. The considered system class has its importance in practice (motion in narrow canals, e.g.), but this book is not with an orientation to design and application, the theory developed here should rather be seen as a contribution to bionics. |
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UNINA9910585986203321 |
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Titolo |
The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture / / Edited by Julie Zook, Kerstin Sailer |
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London : , : UCL Press, , 2022 |
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©2022 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxvi, 160 pages) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The spatial dimension of hospital life -- The patient and the reciprocal view -- Reflective essay: The evolution of surveillance in hospital design -- Working together in healthcare space -- Reflective Essay: Spatial intelligence to support a team-of-teams ecosystem - relevance and need in practice -- The visitor and hospital corridor design -- Reflective essay: Designing a human-centred Hospital Wayfinding System -- The social logic of spaces for health: The relational hospital as a response to COVID-19. |
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The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies ways that planned-for and latent functions of hospital spaces work jointly to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors. By advancing space syntax theory and methods, the volume brings together emerging research on hospital environments. Opening with a description of hospital architecture that |
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emphasizes everyday relations, the sequence of chapters takes an unusually comprehensive view that pairs spaces and occupants in hospitals: the patient room and its intervisibility with adjacent spaces, care teams and on-ward support for their work and the intelligibility of public circulation spaces for visitors. The final chapter moves outside the hospital to describe the current healthcare crisis of the global pandemic as it reveals how healthcare institutions must evolve to be adaptable in entirely new ways. Reflective essays by practicing designers follow each chapter, bringing perspectives from professional practice into the discussion. The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture makes the case that latent dimensions of space as experienced have a surprisingly strong link to measurable outcomes, providing new insights into how to better design hospitals through principles that have been tested empirically. It will become a reference for healthcare planners, designers, architects and administrators, as well as for readers from sociology, psychology and other areas of the social sciences. |
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